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Foster Delivery Science to Build New Facility; Supports Increased Demand
Foster Delivery Science has recently broken ground on a new facility to support increased demand for manufacturing drug delivery and implant polymer blends. The facility…
Asia-Pacific’s Glioblastoma Multiforme Treatment Market Value to More Than Double by 2020
Asia-Pacific’s Glioblastoma Multiforme Treatment Market Value to More Than Double by 2020 The Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) therapeutics market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) will more than…
Australia’s Pharma Sector to Grow to $32.1 Billion
Australia’s healthcare market is set to grow to an impressive $42.5 billion by 2020, driven by universal healthcare coverage provided by Medicare and good access…
Edge Therapeutics Gets $10 Million From Hercules Technology
Edge Therapeutics recently announced it has obtained up to $10 million in venture debt financing from Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (HTGC), to support the…
Seattle Genetics & Genmab Enter New Antibody-Drug Conjugate Collaboration
Seattle Genetics, Inc. and Genmab A/S recently announced the companies have entered into an additional antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) collaboration. Under the new agreement, Genmab will…
Aerie Announces $125-Million Commitment
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced it has received a $125-million financing commitment from Deerfield Management Company L.P., a current Aerie shareholder. The financing is expected…
Ophthotech Corporation Achieves $50-Million Milestone
Ophthotech Corporation (OPHT) recently announced it has achieved a $50- million enrollment milestone payment from Novartis Pharma AG as part of the ex-US licensing and…
Thrive Bioscience Start-Up Now Open for Business
Thrive Bioscience, Inc., a spinoff of successful Beverly firm, Sage Science, Inc., recently announced it will open its doors at 500 Cummings Center, Suite 3150…
Global Market for Nanoparticles in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals to Reach $79.8 Billion
The nanoparticle drug/delivery market presents an increasingly significant part of the overall pharmaceutical product market worldwide. The most rapid advances have been made in drug research…
ACEA Biosciences Introduces xCELLigence RTCA CardioECR System
In response to the need for more predictive preclinical assays for cardiac liability, ACEA Biosciences, Inc. has recently introduced its next-generation Cardio System, the xCELLigence…
Premier Group Announces Purity Testing; Develops World’s First 100% Pure Plastic Polymers
Fairfield, NJ - The majority of plastics packaging products require additives to obtain the necessary processing characteristics of physical properties. These additives, technically known as…
Global Markets for Bioengineered Protein Drugs to Reach $222.7 Billion by 2019
The bioengineered protein drug market is one of the fastest growing markets in recent years in the overall pharmaceutical/biotechnology markets. These drugs have gained much…
Targeted Biologics to Boost Asthma Treatment Market Value to $23.1 Billion
The asthma treatment market value will grow from approximately $15.9 billion in 2013 across eight major countries (the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan,…
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment Market Value to Exceed $7.9 Billion by 2020
The global Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) treatment market value will increase from $5.1 billion in 2013 to slightly over $7.9 billion by 2020, expanding…
Pfanstiehl Gearing Up for Potent API Expansion
Pfanstiehl is now making public what many industry experts have suspected was the case ever since the entrepreneurial contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) shed…
DPT Laboratories Acquires Meda Pharmaceuticals’ New Jersey Location
DPT Laboratories, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with a specialized focus on semi-solid and liquid dosage forms, recently announced the acquisition of Meda…
Catalent Supports Lilly’s Clinical Trials Needs, Makes Major Invetsment
Catalent recently announced that it is to install new automated prefilled syringe clinical packaging lines at its Philadelphia Clinical Supply Center of Excellence, in support…
Ascendia Advances, Successfully Applies Nano-Emulsion Technology Platform
Ascendia Pharmaceuticals, a start-up specialty pharmaceutical company in the business of providing formulation technologies and product development services for poorly soluble molecules, recently announced the…
Selvita Licenses Cresset’s Computational Tools for SAR Analysis & Ligand-Based Design
Cresset, innovative provider of computational chemistry software and services, is pleased to announce that Selvita S.A., a drug discovery company located in Krakow, Poland, has…
Targeted Biologics to Boost Asthma Treatment Market Value to $23.1 Billion
The asthma treatment market value will grow from approximately $15.9 billion in 2013 across eight major countries (the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan,…